The general history of Ireland ... Collected by the learned Jeoffrey Keating, D.D. Faithfully translated from the original Irish language, with many curious amendments taken from the Psalters of Tara
and Cashel, and other authentic Records by Dermod O'Connor. Dublin, 1723.

The Second edition. With an appendix, collected from the Remarks of the learned Dr. Anthony Raymond of Trim, not in the former edition. Westminster, 1726.

Díonbhrollach Fórais Feasa ar Éirinn: or Vindication of the Sources of Irish History by Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Keating, being the Introduction to his 'Groundwork of Knowledge of
Ireland'. Edited (from MSS) with new translation, notes, vocabulary, etc. by David Comyn. 112pp, Dublin, 1898.

Foras Feasa ar Eirinn do réir an Athar Seathrun Céiting, ollamh ré diadhachta. The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the English invasion. Translated from the
original Gaelic, and copiously annotated, by John O'Mahony. With topographical appendix. 20 + 746 pp, New York, 1866.

Ulick de Burgh, Earl of Clanricarde (ed), Memoirs of the Right Honourable The Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Deputy General of Ireland, containing Several Original Papers and Letters of King Charles II, Queen Mother, the Duke of York, the Duke of Lorrain, the Marquis of Ormond, Archbishop of Tuam, Lord Viscount Taaffe, &c. relating to the Treaty between the Duke of Lorrain and the Irish Commissioners, from February 1650, to August 1653. Publish'd from his Lordship's Original MSS. To which is Prefix'd, a Dissertation, wherein some Passages of these Memoirs are illustrated. With a Digression containing several curious Observations concerning the Antiquities of Ireland. London: Printed for James Woodman, at Camden's Head, under Will's Coffee-House, in Bow-Street, Covent-Garden, 1722.

John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes. (Dublin 184851).

Eugene O'Curry, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history (Dublin and New York 1861; repr. Dublin 1878; repr. Dublin 1995). [comments on Keating's FFE].

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, A popular History of Ireland: from the earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics, 2 vols. (New York 1863).

Douglas Hyde, Literary History of Ireland. From earliest tiems to the present day [general remarks about Keating's work and style in relation to other writers] (2nd impression, New York 1901) 556557; 580.

Francis John Byrne, 'Senchas: The nature of Gaelic historical tradition,' Historical Studies, 9 (1974) 13759 (esp. 147148: 'FFÉ as an example of pseudo-history and blending of seanchas with continental models of history).

Brian Ó Cuív, 'The Irish language in the early modern period', in: Theodore William Moody; Francis Xavier Martin; F. J. Byrne (eds), A new history of Ireland, vol. 3: Early Modern Ireland, 15341691 (Oxford 1976) 509545.

Kathleen Hughes, The Early Celtic Idea of History and the Modern Historian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1977), esp. 1922: 'FFÉ as an example of pseudo-history and blending of seanchas with continental models of history'.

Michael Olden, 'Geoffrey Keating  Seathrún Céitinn: Tipperary priest and scholar, 15701649', in: Michael Hallinan (ed), Tipperary county: people and places: an anthology of the evolution of county Tipperary, some historical events and the history of the principal towns in the county (Dublin 1993) 1422.

Edwards, David, 'A haven of popery: English Catholic migration to Ireland in the age of plantations', in: Alan Ford and John Mc Cafferty (eds), The origins of sectarianism in early modern Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) 95126.

Breandán Ó Buachalla, The Crown of Ireland (Galway 2006).

Bernadette Cunningham, O'Donnell histories: Donegal and the Annals of the Four Masters, (Rathmullan: Rathmullan & District Local History Society 2007).

William Camden, Britannia [in Latin] (London 1610). The first translation into English by Philemon Holland was published in 1610. (A full critical edition in Latin and English is available at http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/). A second edition, translated into English, with additions and improvements was published by Dr Edmund Gibson 1722.

Aided Néill Nóigiallaig (The Death of Niall of the Nine Hostages), ed. by Kuno Meyer, Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907) 323324 (text available online at CELT in file G302021). For another version of the same text, see Kuno Meyer, Otia Merseiana 2 (19001901), 8492. (Text and English translation available online at CELT in files G302003 and T302003.)

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The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D. . David Comyn (ed), Patrick S. Dinneen (ed), First edition [The first three of four volumes in the series.] David Nutt, for the Irish Texts SocietyLondon (19021914) . Irish Texts Society [Comann na Sgríbheann Gaedhilge]. , No. 4; 8 and 9

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